OT: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] is this a bug?

[Josh Roberson]

Matt Gibson wrote:

> Steve Kann wrote:
>
>> asterisk as a foreground application except for testing, where not 
>> only will ^c cause it to go down, but so will the loss of the 
>> terminal (i.e. broken SSH connection, hungup serial line, or whatever 
>> your terminal is set up for).
>
>
> On a sorta related note - would it be possible to add 'shell' to the 
> CLI, so it would be possible to spawn a new shell on exit?
>
> This way if someone was in asterisk, and wanted to access a shell (and 
> not another vtty) they could type 'shell' or something similar, and be 
> presented with a shell, then type 'exit' in the shell to be returned 
> to the asterisk CLI.
>
> Sort of like what Lftp does, by lettng you shell out to the system 
> while within the ftp program.
>
> I'm not a coder and it's just an idea, but I thought I should run it by.
>
> Matt
>
>
Or for that matter, just a simple ! will give you a shell.
*CLI> ! <enter>
[root at localhost:~]# exit
*CLI>